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Subject: Re: [GSoC 2010] Plasma Media Center Idea
From: Alessandro Diaferia <alediaferia () gmail ! com>
Date: 2010-02-25 10:34:57
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2010/2/25 Marco Martin <notmart@gmail.com>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Alessandro Diaferia
> <alediaferia@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello people,
> > it's been a while since the last time you heard about me :-) I'm busy
> with
> > my thesis and everything will be over by the end of April. In the
> meantime,
> > anyway, i'd like to see the mediacenter stuff back again :-).
> > I have some ideas here and there in my mind to make concrete for the
> > mediacenter but one thing that reached a good point of maturity was the
> > backend library. I'd like to suggest this as GSoC project for the
> > mediacenter and i'd like to be mentor for this.
>
> i would be very happy to see this going
>
> > The idea briefly:
> > there's some sort of complete api already that allows people to write
> > backends able to retrieve media stuff from services like youtube, picasa,
> > flickr and so on.. I was working on some generic dataengines for this
> > together with kde-silk people and i'd like to see this part complete.
> > YouTube, Flicker and Picasa have their own backends already even if some
> > work is still there to be done. The project would be about making these
> > backends ready and develop the relevant models for the model/view stuff
> of
> > the mediabrowser applet in order to allow browsing media contents from
> web
> > services. This way we reach 2 goals: a good example of how kde-silk is
> > important and one brick more in the huge wall media center land is.
> >
> > Ideas are really really welcome.
> >
> another important thing is getting the ui really going.
> probably it would be easier this year since we actually have qml in a
> near release state (see plasma-mobile), compared to last year
>
Then that could be one idea more i think! :-) And of course you are adding
yourself as mentor, right? =) (because i'm not so experienced with qml).
>
> Cheers,
> Marco MArtin
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I'm going to try qml deeply soon then.. In the while can i add those ideas
to the wiki page?
--
Alessandro Diaferia
KDE Developer
KDE e.V. member
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/2/25 Marco Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a \
href="mailto:notmart@gmail.com">notmart@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, \
204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:14 AM, \
Alessandro Diaferia<br> <<a \
href="mailto:alediaferia@gmail.com">alediaferia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > \
Hello people,<br> > it's been a while since the last time you heard about me \
:-) I'm busy with<br> > my thesis and everything will be over by the end of \
April. In the meantime,<br> > anyway, i'd like to see the mediacenter stuff \
back again :-).<br> > I have some ideas here and there in my mind to make concrete \
for the<br> > mediacenter but one thing that reached a good point of maturity was \
the<br> > backend library. I'd like to suggest this as GSoC project for \
the<br> > mediacenter and i'd like to be mentor for this.<br>
<br>
</div>i would be very happy to see this going<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> The idea briefly:<br>
> there's some sort of complete api already that allows people to write<br>
> backends able to retrieve media stuff from services like youtube, picasa,<br>
> flickr and so on.. I was working on some generic dataengines for this<br>
> together with kde-silk people and i'd like to see this part complete.<br>
> YouTube, Flicker and Picasa have their own backends already even if some<br>
> work is still there to be done. The project would be about making these<br>
> backends ready and develop the relevant models for the model/view stuff of<br>
> the mediabrowser applet in order to allow browsing media contents from web<br>
> services. This way we reach 2 goals: a good example of how kde-silk is<br>
> important and one brick more in the huge wall media center land is.<br>
><br>
> Ideas are really really welcome.<br>
><br>
</div>another important thing is getting the ui really going.<br>
probably it would be easier this year since we actually have qml in a<br>
near release state (see plasma-mobile), compared to last \
year<br></blockquote><div><br>Then that could be one idea more i think! :-) And of \
course you are adding yourself as mentor, right? =) (because i'm not so \
experienced with qml).<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: \
0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> \
<br> Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Marco MArtin<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">I'm going to try qml deeply soon \
then.. In the while can i add those ideas to the wiki page?<br>-- <br>Alessandro \
Diaferia<br>KDE Developer<br>KDE e.V. member<br><br>
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